refreshed - Story 111191 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning air smelled crisp and clean as Sarah walked her daughter, Lily, to school. Sunlight danced on the dew-kissed leaves, and a sudden urge to skip almost overtook her. Lily clutched her hand, her small fingers warm against Sarah's. “Who’s your teacher, sweetie?” Sarah asked, a lightness bubbling within her.

Lily’s eyes lit up. “Mrs. Gable! She’s the best!” Sarah’s breath hitched. Mrs. Gable? The same Mrs. Gable who, decades ago, had nurtured *her* love of reading? A grin spread across her face.

“Well, isn’t that something,” Sarah chuckled, feeling a thrill of pleasant surprise. She ruffled Lily’s hair, an almost childlike glee welling inside her. It felt like a warm bath on a cold day.

Emotion: refreshed

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.31 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -1.10

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion refreshed. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 refreshed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the refreshed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the refreshed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`la`	0.998
`de`	0.703
`!).`	0.384
`(!)`	0.381
`!".`	0.379

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.782
`C`	-0.478
`L`	-0.414
`😣`	-0.388
`😞`	-0.376